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About cookie use on this site

What is a cookie?

Cookies are usually small text files, given ID tags that are
stored on your computer's browser directory or program data
subfolders. Cookies are created when you use your browser to visit
a website that uses cookies to keep track of your movements within
the site, help you resume where you left off, remember your
registered login, theme selection, preferences, and other
customization functions.The website stores a corresponding
file(with same ID tag)to the one they set in your browser and in
this file they can track and keep information on your movements
within the site and any information you may have voluntarily given
while visiting the website, such as email address.

Cookies are often indispensable for websites that have huge
databases, need logins, have customizable themes, other advanced
features.

Cookies usually don't contain much information except for the
url of the website that created the cookie, the duration of the
cookie's abilities and effects, and a random number. Due to the
little amount of information a cookie contains, it usually cannot
be used to reveal your identity or personally identifying
information.However, marketing is becoming increasingly
sophisticated and cookies in some cases can be agressively used to
create a profile of your surfing habits.

There are two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent
cookies. Session cookies are created temporarily in your browser's
subfolder while you are visiting a website. Once you leave the
site, the session cookie is deleted. On the other hand, persistent
cookie files remain in your browser's subfolder and are activated
again once you visit the website that created that particular
cookie. A persistent cookie remains in the browser's subfolder for
the duration period set within the cookie's file.

You can find further information about cookies
here. For more
information from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
regarding cookies
read
more here.

Exemptions from the right to refuse a cookie

The Regulations specify that service providers should not have
to provide the information and obtain consent where that device is
to be used:

for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the
transmission of a communication over an electronic communications
network; or

where such storage or access is strictly necessary to provide
an information society service requested by the subscriber or
user.

In defining an 'information society service' the Electronic
Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 refer to 'any service
normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by means of
electronic equipment for the processing (including digital
compression) and storage of data, and at the individual request of
a recipient of a service'.

The term 'strictly necessary' means that such storage of or
access to information should be essential, rather than reasonably
necessary, for this exemption to apply. However, it will also be
restricted to what is essential to provide the service requested by
the user, rather than what might be essential for any other uses
the service provider might wish to make of that data. It will also
include what is required to comply with any other legislation the
service provider might be subject to, for example, the security
requirements of the seventh data protection principle.

Where the use of a cookie type device is deemed 'important'
rather than 'strictly necessary', those collecting the information
are still obliged to provide information about the device to the
potential service recipient and obtain consent.

Our use of Cookies on this site

We use cookies in one of three ways:

Bidder identity - when you place a bid on this site we need
to know who you are. Once you have registered and then logged in
to this site we place a cookie on your computer in order to
"remember" who you are whilst bidding. This is an essential
cookie and is deemed as "strictly necessary" to the core function
of the site. Without this cookie you would be unable to
place a bid on any of the lots on the site.

Google Analytics - Google Analytics place a good on your
computer. We use Google Analytics to track your usage of the
site. This information is only available to us and our web
developers and is kept as aggregate data by Google. We have no
access to your identity through this mechanism. By knowing how
this site is used and what technology is used we are able to make
improvements to the site.

Third Party applications - from time to time we may place
third party content on the site such as an embedded video from
You Tube or Vimeo, or a picture from Flickr. Those third party
providers may place a cookie on your computer. We have no control
over whether they do so or not.

How to enable and disable cookies using your browser

Google Chrome

Click on the ‘wrench’ icon on the browser (usually found
top-right corner) to open the tools menu

We are proud to announce that we are the main sponsors of the Cash for Kids appeal. Cash for Kids is an amazing charity run by The Wave and Swansea Sound. The sponsorship is worth a five-figure sum which will go towards raising money for children who need it most. We look forward to raising more alongside The Wave.